The problem of IE wasn't stagnation, it was the proprietary "features" it was implementing instead of following standards. Chrome becoming the "new IE" doesn't

The problem of IE wasn't stagnation, it was the proprietary "features" it was implementing instead of following standards. Chrome becoming the "new IE" doesn't mean becoming "bad", it means becoming closed and uncooperative. It means pushing it's own weirs APIs on the web while simultaneously refusing to implement other vendors' ideas. And that is exactly what Chrome has been doing for years. All of the 3 points you mentioned are exactly reasons why Google has been so successful at taking over the web and will continue to be in the future. - They know how IE died, so they've embraced the openness just enough to avoid any kind of backlash regarding new features, - the automatic updates mean web developers can jump on new features immediately without having to wait for them to propagate, giving other vendors basically no time to catch up, and - the fact that Google's websites account for a gigantic percentage of the web traffic and are unavoidable for most people, means that even if web developers want to wait for broader support of new features, Google's own websites can implement them immediately and force their users (==almost everyone) to Chrome.